Carolyn Davis Dailey is an American entrepreneur and former lawyer. She is a London-based entrepreneur and commentator - in the creative industries and former entertainment executive. In 2016 she launched Creative Entrepreneurs, a new movement to help inspire and resource those starting businesses in the creative industries in the UK.
Career
Creative Entrepreneurs
In January 2016 Carolyn launched Creative Entrepreneurs, a movement to resource and inspire people in the creative industries to start their own businesses, at No.10 Downing Street, with the support of the Prime Minister David Cameron who declared the initiative "the first of its kind" and Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, Ed Vaizey. A learning and networking platform, Creative Entrepreneurs offering events with high profile creative founders such as Charlotte Tilbury, ustwo Co-Founder Mills Miller, fashion designerRoksanda Ilincic, Founder of AKQA Ajaz Ahmed, Co-Founder of Frieze, Matthew Slotover and Founder of IMDb, Col Needham. It also offers training courses in partnership with London’s Design Museum, and has attracted creative heavyweights, Zaha Hadid, Anya Hindmarch, Jamal Edwards and Rohan Silva as ambassadors. Online, Creative Entrepreneurs offers searchable curated business resources and also produces original content including inspirational interviews with creative entrepreneur role models and advice pieces from industry experts and investors, big picture think pieces from respected journalists and economic experts and coverage of the major news stories impacting creative entrepreneurship in the UK.
At the time of leaving, Dailey was Time Warner's top executive in Europe. She worked with successive Chairmen, CEO's and senior management of Time Warner and its divisions HBO, CNN, Warner Bros. and Time Inc. to enter new markets, maximise brand value and establish thought leadership with industry, political, media and creative leaders crucial to Time Warner's success. Dailey originally joined the Time Warner family with CNN in London as a member of CNN founder Ted Turner's small start-up team that launched CNN in Europe.
Early Career
Starting her career as an M&A lawyer for global law firm White & Case in New York and London, Dailey previously held legislative posts in the US Congress and a communications post at Estée Lauder Companies in Paris. From 1990 to 1994 she served as a European Counsel for CNN.
Other Activities
Dailey appears regularly on Sky News as an expert on the creative industries and was named by for 2018 as one of the 50 people driving change in the creative industry and world at large. Dailey is a Life Member of British Academy of Film and Television Arts and a Founding Member of Annie Lennox's global women's empowerment charity 'The Circle'. She has been named by Wired UK as one of the UK's Top 10 Women Digital Powerbrokers and by London Evening Standard as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners.
